So an other slightly different post today, I am going to write up the first real strobist shoot I have ever done. If people like this I will continue to try and write them up as I go along.
So the shoot was with the university Archery club.
We did two main shoots one to try and get an action shoot with an arrow in the air, and the second a portrait shoot.
The action shot.
We set up two strobes to start with one behind the archer and one mid way along the range. After a few shoots with this we realise the rest of the range was too dark so we added a second strobe further along (see diagram). We got some success with this but not much with timing being our main problem. Also it always seemed that the arrows were blurred, thought we were able to get something using a lighter poundage bow (a weaker one so the arrows weren't so fast but then we couldn't get the timing right!). Anyway composition wasn't great but its given us some ideas for a reshoot at some point.
light behind in an umbrella (silver bounce) at 1/4 the other two were at 1/8 into white umbrellas (triggered using CLS) we hoped that the ones at 1/8 would be a faster duration then one at 1/4 but don't know if that's true or not!
The Portrait Shoot
Next we moved onto a portrait session. Getting some interesting kind of looks and learning a lot (like how annoying CLS can be.... oh to have those radio poppers :) )
light camera left was bare zoomed to 50mm and at 1/4 the other two were behind and also camera right 1/8 zoomed to 50mm. See the layout below:
So that's it really just wanted to add something that hopefully will be of use to some of you and hopefully get some feedback.
Anyway that all for today till the daily photo!
James
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